Re: Relational database as backend?

[Jeff.Hodges@stanford.edu]

mewilcox@unt.edu said:
> Netscape Directory server allows you to use a RDBMS backend if you
> don't mind writing some code (you have to write your own server plugin
> to lookup stuff in a RDBMS). I don't think openLDAP supports this yet.
> Other packages might as well, though I don't know about them. 

UMich LDAP release 3.3, and thus OpenLdap 1.0, ~does~ support pluggable 
backend databases. Layering slapd on top of an RDBMS is a SMOP (small matter 
of programming). Tho, one has to carefully consider ~why~ one'd want to do 
that. As pointed out in prior messages, these slides & doc discuss such 
matters...

  http://www.stanford.edu/~hodges/talks/EMA98-DirectoryServicesRollout
    /Steve_Kille/index.htm

  http://www.isode.com/IC-6055.html

Jeff
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